Thanks again DAnn. My visit to the spine specialist on 3/4/11 went like this. He is sending me to pain management to have pain blocker shots in my neck on 3/29/11. He said this will tell him a lot as to where this pain is coming from and it will determine what type of treatment I need as in another surgery from ADR revision to fusion or what and that's as far as he went on explaining what my other options would be if the pain was not coming from my C-Spine. He thinks it is level C-6 C-7 level that is giving me the problem.
If it is I believe if I understand right he will remove the ADR and do a fusion on C-5 C-6 & C-6 an C-7 and I am terrified about it all and if so they will have to go through the back this time. Any info on this surgery would be helpful...and if the pain is not coming from there then its in my shoulder muscles and any advice on what could be done about that would be helpful also.
Thanks for all the advice and support. I'm hanging in there as this keeps dragging out but I know it takes time to have all the right test and procedures done.
msrudy
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